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I recently installed a test Squeeze system on an older Acer laptop. I used the text installer (but not expert mode) and followed the defaults to create an encrypted LVM using guided partitioning and the /home plus "all but /root" plus swap which if I understand correctly are all created as part of a single logical volu... | The errors at boot are normal. it can't find the partitions because they are encrypted until you enter the passphrase. When I installed Debian on this ancient Thinkpad I choose to use lvm+encryption, haven't had any issues since I installed over a year ago. Code: Select all$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounte... |
So my recent experience with bash completion has gone as follows [HOLD] bash-completion kept it at this from a prior experience [UPGRADE] bash-completion 1:1.3-1 -> 1:1.99-2 released all packages that were held where apt-listbugs showed no problems. this where the problem starts. i'd forgotten why i kept bash-completio... | milomak wrote: now the same old package behaves differently. what have i missed? root@deansdebian:/home/dean# apt-cache policy bash-completion bash-completion: Installed: 1:1.99-3 Candidate: 1:1.99-3 Version table: *** 1:1.99-3 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status |
I'm running Debian Wheezy with xfce4. Yesterday , when I ran and update the result was this, All windows I'm opening , Iceweasel,Icedove,Terminal or any other programs start with a small window and the option to maximise (the buttons to the top right of the window) is completely gone. Accordning to aptitude there isn't... | Go to menu>settings>window manager and see if you can fix there. It looks more like some issue with your local settings than with any package. |
I'm probably going to pay for it but here you go anyways... I've tried this Iceweasel changed the user agent but still have issue with the browser.. Some sites don't play nice and some addons don't work with Iceweasel. I finally installed the newest firefox and I'll my problems went away. I wish I could have stuck with... | Which sites do you mean? Normally, it should matter whether you're rusing FF or Iceweasel. In most cases is the website itself which is not created correctly. |
Hello, I've mainly used Debian on servers. I'm disliking some of the new and upcoming Ubuntu changes so I'm going back to Debian on my desktop. I've installed Debian amd64 and the weirdest thing is than when I try to browse the net only certain sites come up. Google first wouldn't come up. I was able to ping it.. I did... | First try disabling ipv6 in Iceweasel/Firefox: 1. type about:config in the address bar and press enter. 2. Search for ipv6 3. Fine the value that is named network.dns.disableIPv6. It should be the only result. Double click the value and change it to true. 4. Restart Firefox/Iceweasel. Try disabling ipv6 totally? I am n... |
I got problems with my internal communication system (i neither get system-mails nor am i able to "write" from one to the other). What am i looking for? What can i use as a search term for a searchengine like duckduckgo? What is the base of the communication-system? Thanks. | "sendmail" is the underlying transport mechanism for Internet mailing. |
Hello, All! I have AVLinux 5.02 (a custom debian iso) installed on a HP Pavilion dv1331se and I am getting random shutdowns. I've posted on the AVLinux forum, but this is really more of a general debian question and I hope that it's answer will be useful to others as well. It appears that there is some process or condi... | Did you check your CPU temperatures? If it thinks its getting too hot, and if you have good power/thermal managment configured, that could initiate a nice shutdown. Some of the log lines you found suggest that something is changing the runlevel, which AFAIK should be part of a nice shutdown. But two of the lines look p... |
I install the brscan2 driver and the install goes fine but when I try to scan (with simple-scan) it says there is no scanner. I have not had this problem with stable. Also, during boot is says "saned disabled". I enabled it manually but the outcome is the same. | I got the answer here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 41&start=0 I typed Code: Select alllsusb Then Code: Select allsudo chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/006/002 as the device was listed in lsusb. |
Hi, Today I upgraded my headless server which runs squeeze and after the upgrade it won't boot any more. When I try to boot is stops at a black screen saying GRUB and with a blinking cursor. The cursor is just blinking and I can't type anything. I used various methods to restore grub: 1. Booted from a live cd and reins... | While still looking into the problem I came accross the boot_info_scipt. Here is its output. Hope someone can figure out what the problem is. Code: Select all Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011 ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== => Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the... |
I've been trying to follow some instructions I found here on installing Fjbtndrv on Mint Debian, but for some reason I don't seem to be able to install the kernel headers. I've never really dealt with modifying kernels before, so I'm a bit out of my depth. When I try to install the headers, I'm told there's a dependenc... | Upgrade to testing. gcc-4.3 (4.3.5-4) is the version from stable. |
Hello all. New Debaian user, here. I just installed Debian 6.0.3 on my Asus G73 laptop. I have a user account set up, and Network Manager is recognising the available networks, however, even with the proper passphrase provided for my WPA, it won't connect. More, if I try to connect to a local unsecured network, it won'... | Nevermind. Figured it out from what was at this link and then restarting. Tommie |
Dear board, The last few years I used a hard disk copy as backup to replace the original one if it would fail. Now I updated to grub2 / udev (debian 6.0.3 currently) and my hard disk copy refuses to boot (stops at "GRUB"). I somehow expected this from what I read about udev and the use of UUID instead of partition name... | (giving a few more details and update) The copy is on a second HD (same layout, manufacturer, etc...) Copying is done from booting a tools CD (knoppix): dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc count=1 bs=512 dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 ... dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/dev/hdc8 except for hda2 (swap) and hda3 (old stuff, will not be mounted... |
Hi there, At first I am very in experienced with debian (little experience on ubuntu) and have null networking setup experience. I have a debian box where I need to remote ssh to. This because I dont have a monitor in the house (I use laptops and now use my tv for my server, girlfriend is not loving it as much as I am ... | Well if you have changed the listening port to 223 then you also need to specify that explicitly when connecting, like: Code: Select allyou@laptop:~$ ssh -p 223 you@server-ip-or-name |
I've tried: Code: Select allservice NetworkManager stop but it fails: Code: Select allNetworkManager: unrecognized service Thank you. | /etc/init.d/network-manager stop as root. |
my wireless network is down. I got thinkpad x120e, chipset: Realtek RTL8188CE, driver: rtl819ce. Here is what i did so far: upgraded to 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 installed firmware-linux-nonfree added the firmware file from the repo since it's not yet packaged in firmware-realtek and reloaded the module. 'iwlist sc' shows: 'wla... | http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Realtek_ ... 2U_devices I had to follow some of the instruction for installing the firmware file under wheezy: Code: Select allFirmware is required to be supplied for RTL8188CE/RTL8192CE-based devices: $ aptitude install git && exit $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gi... |
I didn't really notice it till yesterday (blame it on being lazy ), but my computer doesn't connect to the internet unless the cable was connected during boot-up. If I didn't connect the cable at start-up, and want to use the internet, I have to restart the machine, which is kind of overkill for me . I usually suck at ... | If you're using dynamic ip, maybe try Code: Select all# dhclient your_wired_interface If you're using NM, make sure to check "Connect Automatically" option. |
Hello, I don't know how to go about troubleshooting this error. Would someone please help? I ran Synaptic and clicked Reload. The error is: Code: Select allW: GPG error: http://mozilla.debian.net squeeze-backports Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1321788755 Here is my sources.list: Code: Selec... | This website should help. http://backports-master.debian.org/ |
I have been a debian user nearly a year now, early on I learned how to compile and install software but after reading a question posted by my professor for my linux management system I believe I may have been installing software in an improper way. The question was: "Considering you are root, why would you not want to ... | sudo is not setup by default on Debian, using su would be the correct method. # The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - Basics of the Debian package management system - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html # Debian newbie help documentation - NewbieDOC - http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian ... umentation # Apt-Pinni... |
I'm having difficulty adding shares to my Debian Samba server that I can access from my OS X 10.6.8 system. Basically what I want to do is create a share that is meant for putting my PHP files into my debian server from Mac Finder. I followed this tutorial when setting up the samba configuration (http://www.unixmen.com... | At a quick glance that looks ok. You restarted the samba server after changing smb.conf? Code: Select all/etc/init.d/samba restart You added the same user/pw to the system, samba & the mac? What error msgs do you get when connecting? |
I cannot figure out how to input non-English script in the terminal. Ibus is installed and working fine in every application, except the terminal. I cannot even copy and paste Chinese into the terminal. The non-Latin characters are displayed as "?". Does anyone know how to enable the terminal to recognise non-Latin-bas... | Randicus wrote:I cannot figure out how to input non-English script in the terminal. Ibus is installed and working fine in every application, except the terminal. I cannot even copy and paste Chinese into the terminal. The non-Latin characters are displayed as "?". Does anyone know how to enable the terminal to recognis... |
This may be a noob question, and I do understand the Debian runlevels, but something appears to be not functioning. I installed 'tor' on my box. Now, I don't always need it. And when I don't need it, I don't want it to start up as a daemon at system boot. It's probably some disease I have So, I ran: Code: Select allupd... | Code: Select allupdate-rc.d tor disable ??? |
When ever I go to install something or search with apt-get or aptitude I get the below errors. VMware... Actually everything works fine. I can install packages fine. So I am not sure what to do about this. Code: Select allProcessing triggers for man-db ... Setting up ntp (1:4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1+b1) ... insserv: warning: scr... | http://communities.vmware.com/message/1874091?tstart=0 Have a look a post #7, might be what you need. |
Hi everyone, I have a debian server on which I'm connecting a USB/Serial data cable. To use it I'm running the following command: Code: Select allmodprobe usbserial vendor=0X... product=0x... And it mounts as /dev/ttyUSB0. Do you know a way to automatically run this at startup? Also is there a way to specify that I wan... | Add the name of the module to /etc/modules. You can do so by running nano /etc/modules (or any other text editor as root). # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored. # P... |
Hi! I've problem with mount a samba share at boot. Already "googled", tried many solutions, but no way :'( There's an Ubuntu Server 10.04 with Samba sharing a folder, user+password required I want to mount this shared folder with /etc/fstab in my Debian 64 bits 6.0.3 Tried : Code: Select all//192.168.1.10/share/musik /... | Is the package smbfs or cifs-utils installed? Does it work if you mount it manually with Code: Select allmount -t smbfs -o username=your_username,password=your_password //remote/location /local/location (could replace smbfs with cifs as smbfs is just a wrapper for cifs now)? We can't really help you unless you give us ... |
apt-get upgrade is not working and dont allow to install any progrm from sinaptic Code: Select allroot@debian:/home/kourosh2027# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 13 not fully installed ... | wow!! it solved automically!?! bye! |
I use Synaptic package manager. I checked some boxes under Settings, Repositories and it appears that Synaptic has added some Sid / unstable repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list even though I have a Wheezy / testing installation. It wasn't too long ago that I did this but I can't remember exactly when and I can't reme... | Not really. If you added Sid and installed/upgraded any packages at all you are likely running software from Sid. Your best bet is to remove the Sid from your sources and reload. Ensure the packages are in good condition using apt-get -f install . Then you can use the "local" category in Synaptic in order to find packa... |
I assigned /dev/sda3 partition for the network shared directory in 'laptop' host. Code: Select all$ more /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 /mnt/shared ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /mnt/shared /exports/shared none bind root@laptop:/exports# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 37G 1.2G 34G 4% / tmpfs 502... | /etc/exports file on the server Code: Select allpenguin@laptop:/etc$ more /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). # # Example for NFSv2 and NFSv3: # /srv/homes hostname1(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) hostname2(ro,sync,no_subtr ee_check) # ... |
Hello, I've just installed Debian 6 stable on my laptop. The problem is that, I only get the lo interface. I tried Code: Select all# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 up # ping google.com connect: Network is unreachable The mac address of the laptop doesn't appear in the list of ... | Code: Select allcat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 #NetworkManager#iface ... |
Hi there, I am running Squeeze on my Amilo Li 1718 having a Realtek ALC816 sound card using alsa drivers (version 1.0.21). When I plug-in any microphone in the front jack, I cannot record any sound or get any voip to use it. I have tried to google this issue and also tried to run alsa-info.sh (of which you can see the ... | Thanks to this thread, I have a solution... Long story short: Code: Select allsudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf add the following line at the end of the file alsa-base.conf: Code: Select alloptions snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack-660 save, close and reboot; the microphone should be present in alsamixe... |
I recently reinstalled squeeze on my home server (an old eeepc 701). I have a logical volume (datagroup) on several external drives that I want to mount at boot. However, the boot messages complain that no physical volumes are found (though I can't find these in /var/log/* - this is just from reading the screen at boot... | I fixed it. If anyone has similar difficulties, what was needed was for the boot process to wait for the disks to spin up. Adding a rootdelay value to the grub commands fixed it. So in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="rootdelay=60 quiet" (60s is too long, but I can play with this later.) |
Hi, I just installed a brand new debian with kde (amd64) and oh surprise : I can't use kwrite or anything as root... kdesu -> not found. I read that the new kde forbit gui editing as root. I won't use vi or else as I'm sure there's a way to edit this %*# grub file. Do you know any mean of use software as root or anythi... | Any console text editor. nano, le, mcedit. But you must know though some basic vi's commands to case when you will be forced boot in recovery (rescue) mode and only vi or vim will be available. Peter. |
Hi all I Installed Squeeze and UbuntuLucid on this laptop: http://www.superwarehouse.com/images/pr ... D469AA.jpg Hp Compaq Nc6000, but I cannot configure the sensors for CPU temperature, fans, and battery voltage Cmos. ****************************************************************************************************... | Trying family `SMSC'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0x0f00 Trying family `SMSC'... Yes Found `SMSC LPC47N227 Super IO' (no hardware monitoring capabilities) Seems there are no exposed sensors on this laptop. You can probably check on http://www.lm-sensors.org for a driver for the LPC47N227 Super IO chip even though ... |
In a laptop I'm using in my school can't connect using wifi to the access point. I'm using network-manager-gnome in a XFCE DE. I'm using current stable (squeeze) branch. Network-manager says I'm connected, yay! but....using chromium to start browsing I can't do it, I can't view any popular websites. I try to ping to 8.... | http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager P.S. Wicd serves the same purpose and Gnome Network manager, but doesn't require a bunch of Gnome dependencies. You may find it a preferable alternative. |
On my 32-bit Athlon system, I have both the 486 and 686 kernels installed. Debian runs fine on this system using either kernel, but I have noticed some apps will run a little faster when I boot the system with the 486 kernel. Am I correct that when Debian next releases updated kernel packages, both of them will be upda... | You should recieve updates for both. |
Hello all I have just recently installed firestarter to get an idea of iptables editing with a GUI. Firestarter works great and I love it, however when I turn my system on, and my system is booting up the terminal displays a "Failed" message when attempting to start up firestarter. Now I have been doing my homework (re... | 200k wrote:Hello all I have just recently installed firestarter to get an idea of iptables editing with a GUI. Firestarter works great and I love it, however when I turn my system on, and my system is booting up the terminal displays a "Failed" message when attempting to start up firestarter. Now I have been doing my h... |
Greetings! This is the first time I've posted on these forums, although I've referred to them with success many times over the last few months. I've been an Ubuntu user who's become somewhat disenchanted with the direction they're going so I've been slowly moving towards Debian over the last few months with with great ... | I have a 1215 and had the same mic issue. I solved it by using a newer kernel. If I remember correctly, I compiled 2.6.37, sid had 2.6.32 at the time. Squeeze backports has 2.6.38, you might want to try that. |
Hi folks, I'm desperately trying to mount a NFS share at boot time. I've read lots of tutorials and searched in all forums, without results. Here's my line in /etc/fstab : Code: Select alldebian60:/srv /mnt/nfs nfs user,auto,soft,timeo=15,intr 0 0 But it doesnt' work. It stays blocked at boot at "Starting NFS common ut... | So OK, I found a "solution", which is more a dirty hack. Here it is : I disable automount in /etc/fstab, and create a Debian startup service which runs the "mount.nfs" command manually. So the new line in /etc/fstab : Code: Select alldebian60:/srv /mnt/nfs nfs user,noauto,soft,timeo=15,intr 0 0 And my new init script i... |
Since installing Debian Squeeze I have been plagued by a high pitched fan noise that starts after the logout or shutdown command is issued including restarting X. Whatever is causing this may well be connected to intermittent reboot failures (only in Squeeze) when the fan noise persists until the reset button is deploy... | Do you by chance have a Nvidia video card installed? If so, the fan speed of your video card is not controlled when the the corresponding driver is not active (e.g. during start-up and shutdown), and the fan speed falls back to the safe mode to avoid damage to your card (=high speed to avoid over-heating). About the re... |
Hi I need help I have tried a lot of things and Googled a lot but nothing so far has worked. I would like to add the configuration needed to have fast-cgi run php scripts via php5-fpm. I currently have a running configuration that consists of Debian Squeeze with some wheezy packages: Apache_MPM_Event, PHP5-CGI, APC, Fa... | Update still looking for help to resolve the problem. OK so now I know this is a problem with Apache2. It will not pass off the request to fastcgi, likely because I have something misconfigured. But the core reason for it not to pass the request is because the file that I am pointing at is not really a file or director... |
Hi, This is really embarrassing but I tried installing samba server/client on the basic cli squeeze for home server application. I can install everything except "smbfs" package which contains "mount.cifs" and other file system related binaries. I also added "contrib" and "non-free" to "/etc/apt/sources.list" and ran "a... | Any error message after you tried installing it? Have you tried :Code: Select all# apt-get update # apt-get install smbfs |
I am trying to compile and run the kernel 3.2 but I have problems: I did a clean installation of debian in a vmware machine. I got the last version of the kernel with git and copied it to /usr/src I run: Code: Select allmake defconfig make menuconfig (and selected the tempfs drivers otherwise I've got some errors). mak... | You may have these errors due to lack of support for the filesystem on the hard drive you are attempting to boot from. I would compile the kernel the Debian way and no need to do it in /usr/src. Do it somewhere that $USER can write to. Root would only be required to install the kernel, not build it. Consider using make... |
I made /etc/make.conf file to use these options whenever I build a package. Code: Select allCFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 Makefile2 Code: Select all# /etc/make.conf reading check CC=gcc # make won't read /etc/make.conf? CFLAGS=-c -march=athlon64 -O2 all... | JanPenguin wrote:Gentoo or FreeBSD document say make read the make.conf file but not in Debian. Presumably 'make.conf' is part of Gentoo's Portage ebuild system, and part of FreeBSD's 'ports' build system. It is not a standard feature of the default GNU build system and will not typically be found in Debian, Fedora, Sl... |
Hi, For some reason I can't login when I use AllowUsers with openssh. I try to login as user. AllowUsers user Permission denied (publickey). Without AllowUsers set, I get a prompt to give my passwd for the key and then I can login without any problems. What could be wrong here? Edit: users on the nas itself should be p... | PasswordAuthentication yes ? |
i have dell inspiron n5110 with intel core i7 cpu i install debian on it but: my kernel is: 2.6.32-5-amd64 but my cpu is: intel core i7-2630qm help me becouse i install any packages from packages.debian.com it will be amd cpu complicated and my cpu is another one pleasw HELP ME!! | you have 64 bit kernel. why do you panic? |
Hello everyone, I've been looking around on the forum for the solution but nobody seems to have had such a strange question as mine... 1st part of my problem: I have 3 VM working with KVM on a same host, I would like those VM to be able to comunicate together on private IP addresses (I do not even need them to be reach... | Hi, No one has an idea about this ? Or about where I should ask for help |
Hi guys, im having a difficulty here, I want to move my /home directory to a separate partition. I copied entire contents of /home using rsync with all the permissions stuff checked, links stuff and disabled permission remaping checked in advanced. After that I've added the entry in fstab as follows: Code: Select allUU... | "Checked"?? rsync is CLI. In cases like this, the easy way to make sure that rsync does what it needs to use the the -a flag. So, if we imagine that the destination is mounted temporarily at media/foo, you'd log in as root and use the command:Code: Select allrsync -av /home/ /media/foo/ (The -v switch is entirely optio... |
Hi everyone, I decided to move from Ubuntu to Debian - GodFather of deb dists Unfortunately I bumped to the wall with my small problem: Plugging in headphones or external sound syst. doesn't silence laptops speakers. I resolved it in Ubuntu by editing: Code: Select all/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Adding options snd-h... | The issue is probably solved with a newer alsa kernel module. See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 69#p400569 You can also try model=thinkpad |
I haven't posted on here before because I usually can figure out to do this things with google and enough time. But, I can't seem to figure this one out, so I am biting the bullet and seeing if anyone out there can help. Thanks in advance! So the problem... I have an Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG. I'm running Wheezy and... | The Intel card is the integrated card, and it looks to me like you are using it. There's an error loading the firmware for the ATI card, did you get the Wheezy firmware-linux-nonfree package installed to match your kernel? |
Hi, I am new user of Linux, and following this page http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian ... 6_compile/ I successfully compiled new kernel. Then I installed it, but then I stop since I cannot install mkinitrd , which is needed to make ramdisk of new kernel. Can some one tel me step by step what package I need to ins... | Code: Select allapt-get install initrd-tools man mkinitrd man mkinitrd.conf that's all you need. |
I have a problem with configuring Apache httpd.conf and the hosts file. As I understand it the server name in httpd:conf should open a local website in the browser as long as there is hosts entry for it. However, this is not working for me and I must be missing something very simple. my hosts file has one line in it 12... | ocpaul20 wrote:I have a problem with configuring Apache httpd.conf and the hosts file. and then further down ServerName develop.lcl <Directory /home/weifan/httpd/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> DocumentRoot "/home/weifan/httpd/newdevelop/h... |
I got such an device (per luck). Can i use it at all? I mainly use PC's and laptops. Search results are not that clear: https://seeks.homecomputing.fr/search?l ... ff&ui=stat though that results makes me believe it might work: http://packages.debian.org/sid/airport-utils If it does not work anyway i don't need to searc... | I always thought you needed a non free firmware but maybe not? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnPowerPC#Airport_Extreme and airport-utils |
So at this point it's been over a day since I ran the update and now I have no idea what was changed at this point. Anyways, now when I try booting up the following happens: Code: Select allLoading, please wait... /init: line 11: mount: not found /init: line 12: mount: not found /init: line 25: mount: not found W: devt... | Have you tried loading your machine by selecting the recovery mode option for you kernel in Grub? |
OK, I previously just got a hp pavilion dm4-1273ca notebook (it's like < 1 week old) and i decided to dual-boot with Debian 6.0.3 x64. Now, I first installed windows 7ultimate sp1 x64 and it runs fine (like always). I then installed Debian and everything went fine. The problem IS: X sees 2 gpu's but loads only the inte... | SOLVED: http://enc.com.au/2011/06/debian-linux- ... v6-6023tx/ btw this can be very helpful to anyone having trouble with the new ati cards just read the article!!!! |
Hey all I've been running 6.0.2 amd64 stable since release day and recently have noticed my suspend and hibernate do not work. Normally I have transmission running and have set it to not enter sleep mode while torrents are active. However today I have not had transmission and was wanting to see if the sleep mode option... | Post the output of /var/log/pm-suspend.log. In my experience, problems of this nature arise when some background process refuses to suspend (IE, it crashed) or a module can't be suspended. |
Hi, I have tried to install a driver for my Broadcom wireless in an almost clean Debian Squeeze (I just installed samba and winbind before). The wireless id is the following: Code: Select all# lspci|grep Broadcom 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) This is in an oldish Asus ... | I can tell you there are several versions of driver available for my wireless card, though mine is not a Broadcom card. So, brcm80211, broadcom-sta must be two versions from diferent vendor. Here one module name is put int blacklist to avoid confliction with the other. That is what you see in this step: Code: Select al... |
I am new to debian and I use a multiboot, when I restart Debian it doesn't go all the way down to Grub it seems to boot but no grub and then the login again. Where can I adjust this behavior so I can just restart to go into another OS, instead of shutdown, then start and go in. thanks --jerry | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=71202 |
Hi I have Debian Testing and since today's upgrade my compiz is not working any more. I have intel GMA4500m graphic card. When i: Code: Select allcompiz --replace I get: Code: Select allcompiz (core) - Fatal: Root visual is not a GL visual compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz (core) - Fatal: No mana... | Is it just compiz that doesn't work or is GL broken? Can you run a 3D game? |
I am running a nvidia geforce 8400gs. I just installed debian 6.0.3. This is my second attempt cause the first time I tried to setup the nvidia drivers that when I rebooted, It went to a cammand line instead of going to the gui login screen. I googled on how to install nvidia drivers on debian and followed through, but... | What nvidia drivers? The one in the the non-free part of the debian official repository (nvidia-glx) or did you downloaded directly from the nvidia site? And what version? What specific instructions are you referring to? Anyway, maybe something wrong occurred the first time, and it's breaking your setup now. I advise y... |
I recently setup a FreeNAS box for storing all my data, i would like to be able to setup Debian to auto-connect during login, so i can easily transfer files over to the nas box. Currently i use CIFS share on the nas box, to share the data with windows computers in the house, i've tried using the following to connect to... | I connect to my NAS (Xtreamer e-trayz) from Debian with NFS and it is very simple to configure and it works flawlessly. It's also the fastest option. I don't use Windows. CIFS is the option for people who are stuck with Windows sharing/Samba. My guess is that your permissions problems are related to your Samba configur... |
I have a problem... I used to have a locally compiled mysql installation in a custom location. I'm moving to installed mysql-client from the repos. Now, I realize that I had somehow managed to add my old soelf-compiled libraries to the ld.so.cache file. Now, they will be linked in priority to my old locally compiled li... | Nevermind, I had forgotten I had myself put a file into /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ which recreated the now unwanted linking candidates everytime I ran ldconfig. Solved. |
I just made a fresh install with XFCE, instead of Gnome. I then installed Synaptic and used the DVD to install Ibus, but Ibus does not have any input methods (in other words, useless). I added third party to the sources, but it does not change things. When using Gnome, Synaptic includes all available Ibus packages. It ... | Randicus wrote: When using Gnome, Synaptic includes all available Ibus packages. It is strange that it does not include input methods when using XFCE. Would it be related to XFCE or to the way Synaptic was installed? I used the command, aptitude install synaptic, I guess you were probablly using two different repositor... |
I finally got my wireless card working, installed the right kernel that supported my card and all, but now I can't get it to connect to any networks. They show up on both network manager and wicd and iwlist, so I know my card is reading the signal and it's a strong signal too, but wicd keeps telling me, "unable to obta... | I hope this isn't considered spamming. I guess the trouble was network manager was still running in the background even though I was sure I had stopped it, I am able to connect now! Thanks anyway! |
I installed apt-cacher on my primary machine to reduce bandwidth utilization. I configured it to use a proxy server. All was well. I changed providers and can no longer use the gateway/proxy I had previously setup. I am using a 3G connection to the new provider. Now, whenever I use Aptitude it insists on trying to conn... | Do you have /etc/apt/apt.conf that contains proxy information? |
Today I tried to upgrade my system and got this error Code: Select alldpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 49738 package 'debe17-svn': blank line in value of field 'Description' I googled but couldn't find anything, so taking a "close" look to the message error I open the /var/lib/dpkg/status and ... | Hmmm--I wonder how they got that package built---I've always had the Debian package build tools catch something like that and come to a screeching halt. I wonder if this is a checkinstall or hand-built deb package. |
Hi folks, I've got a new video card (yay!) but in an effort to install the latest radeon or fglrx drivers I've noticed something odd in Synaptic. I have backports main contrib and non-free in my sources list and some packages are showing up (a lot actually) but I can't see any fglrx-drivers package or the needed firmwa... | Do they show up in the "Versions" tab? If so, it's a preferences issue. |
Fresh install of Debian Live 6.0.2 Code: Select all# lspci | grep -i net 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) Downloaded drivers from htt... | The Stable release must never be mixed with the other branches (Testing and Sid). Learn how to use Backports (1) and install the firmware package and the new kernel from there. The kernel is at version 2.6.39+, which is the last version from the 2.6 series. If your devices didn't work correctly, post back and provide u... |
Hi, I have got the following problem: i have got partition on external usb storage, which formated into ext4 Code: Select allfdisk -l /dev/sde Disk /dev/sde: 1000.2 GB, 1000198897664 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 ... | Try mount this partition from /etc/rc.local or swap order udev-mtab and mountall.sh in /etc/rcS.d, i.e. udev-mtab must be start before mountall.sh, but I'm not sure that it will help. Peter. |
I just installed Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-35squeeze2) and everything is working but a Logitech USB headset. When I plug it in it is properly recognized: Code: Select all$dmesg [ 320.480305] usb 2-1.7: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [ 320.579020] usb 2-1.7: New USB device found... | In the gnome of another machine with ubuntu and another one with fedora when I execute gnome-volume-control I got the following window where I can choose the sound output, but I have nothing like that in my debian Might we this the problem? The output of my devices are: Code: Select all$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [PCH ]... |
debian 3.0.0-1-amd64 KDE i installed another operating system on one of my rigs to dual boot with debian, & after deciding i don't want it, i deleted it's partition. now my grub menu no longer appears and cannot load debian...boot proceedure stops at: error: no such device: 7e3e507b-67e5-4874-a2ef-c4aec70008d1. grub re... | Easiest way is to use the "rescue" option of the installer CD. It should have a grub restore option right on it. |
Since weeks I'm trying to find a solution to the problem, that I can't change the seccion lifetime on our Debian Lenny webserver. I found a promising article on this issue and was convinced, that the described methods should be sufficient to solve my problem, but unfortunately nothing worked so far... After setting the... | The solution was, that my predecessor saved the session files in adifferent folder and therefore my adjustments didn't cause any difference. As soon as I adjusted the paths it went all well the usual way... |
deleted | I'm confused. Unless there's something unusual about your rig that you didn't mention, there should be no such thing as sda16. (There is a hard limit of 15 partitions on "SCSI" devices, which includes SATA drives.) |
Hello, Today, after running "aptitude upgrade" I got a message from dhclient that it was going to change the configurations and the MAC address, so I had to stop any download and any connection to continue. I had the option to skip this and do it later, but as I was not in a hurry I let it do it. The problem is that af... | I has something like that happen this morning. I installed kde, there was a message about a mac config that I really didn't pay attention to. Long story short, lost all network service. Had to go back and look up the original mac address and reset it. Still couldn't get broadcom to work. Deleted it and re-installed it,... |
I have installed many packages during last week and iirc, i have installed two of these applications (file system integrity check). I do not remember which ones they are. They run daily on cron for about half hour and use the disk and cpu to the limit, my disk is noisy and i see the cpu graph. How do i identify which a... | Try find its in /var/log/dpkg.log. Peter. |
Hello, Touchpad is dead. System: i5 U430 Sony Vaio VPCY2, squeeze 6.02 , 2.6.32-5-amd64 , gdm 2.30.2. Installed packages: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics , tpconfig , gsynaptics , gpointing-device-settings # tpconfig Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Im almost sure enabling SHMConfig is the so... | This should help http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62092 |
Not sure why my previous post was removed. I didn't see anything wrong according to "Forum guidelines. Please read before first post! " Anyways I am looking for work yet I cannot view any jobs on governmentjobs.com or county job listings while using linux. Governmentjobs.com gives me an immediate blank white page and K... | I can confirm the problem. The root cause is almost certainly some badly-written backend script that's intended to "customize" the site's appearance in a browser-specific way. When said script fails to find your UA (browser) in its list, it "should" return a generic version of the page. Instead, it returns no content. ... |
In my /etc/network/interfaces i have this line Code: Select alldns-nameservers 192.168.10.254 and i want to add another two servers. I have read the reference manuals and search the forums (forums search on 'dns' came with zero results!). IIrc i add them to the line with a space separating the different IPs, is this co... | Unless you have a static ip address you shouldn't have any nameservers in the interfaces file. Edit /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf |
I have changed the port of sshd from the default in sshd_config. It works fine from that machine, but if I connect from another computer I get a "connection refused." Is there another setting I need to change in order to get this working? | I you have a router / firewall you must open / change the port from 22 to the new port. |
Hello, I can't access my ethernet connection anymore after upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (but wireless works well). Code: Select allroot@makayabou-testing:/home/makayabou# lspci | grep Ethernet 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10) Code: Select ... | In /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf change managed=false to managed=true save the change and restart networking or reboot. |
Hello, I'm playing with the latest debian squeeze. I can activate tap-clicking with the touchpad for my user, but how do I enable it for the gdm3 login screen? TIA | mzilikazi wrote:jdev1240 wrote:Putting the following in Code: Select all/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf worked for me Code: Select allSection "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "TapButton" "1" Option "TapButton" "2" Option "TapButton" "3" EndSection H... |
Hello, I looked for a support category and posting guidelines but I have not found any. Please request any information you might need and feel free to move the topic. Linux Shana 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Sep 13 22:14:59 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Debian Squeeze Now for the issue itself. When I plug in my headphones (with m... | Solved by installing a newer kernel from squeeze-backports. |
Running LinuxMint Debian Edition, pointing to Debian testing repos (not the LM maintained repositories), with a custom 3.1.0-rc4 kernel. fglrx propriety drivers have been working well. However, a recent (as in the last two weeks) update has completely broken my fglrx drivers. Here's what I've done to try and fix: Reins... | OK - fixed - of a fashion. I reinstalled a bare debian install, without a desktop etc. Just the base system. After that, xorg and gnome (my DE of choice). I've dumped my old /home which means I'm starting again, and fglrx from the repository is now working fine. Still can't get the ATI downloaded drivers working, but r... |
Of late when I boot my Debian Squeeze system I catch a glimpse of a message telling me that my version of iwlwifi is deprecated since it loads iwlagn 5000-2. iwlagn 5000-5 now is preferred. Here is the message as I found it in /var/log/syslog.1 Sep 16 20:45:55 Maple kernel: [ 13.987445] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: r... | Now as you said it, I have the same, good question. But I have no problems at all with my wireless. I installed the firmware from non-free like you. I am not bothering to go to the Intel web site. Btw, in backports are also new updated drivers for it. |
WTf is this? dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 15369 package 'warlocksgauntlet': blank line in value of field 'Description' packages that would be upgrade: The following packages will be upgraded: cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc dpkg-dev ffmpeg iceweasel libavcodec53 libavdev... | I think the error is probably just what it says. warlocksgauntlet is incorrectly formatted. Perhaps disable whatever repo it is in? |
Testing distribution. Installed Linux 3.0 but left 2.6.32 on as backup. When I boot into the old kernel, wireless mostly works OK, but never when I boot with the new kernel. Results of dmesg|grep wlan0 on 2.6: [ 22.005102] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 28.196774] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is no... | Hmmm...well, does "lspci" turn up any notion of what the wifi chipset is? Maybe you need a newer firmware package for the newer kernel; it has happened. |
Hi, I've installed debian and configured the network: I do ping to the gateway and it connects, I ping one distant server directly with the IP and it can see it (but not with ping http://www.google.com), but when I try to use internet it says that maybe the url is wrong, but it is not. And when I try to update (apt-get... | How did you set up the net? What kind of hardware? Do you have DHCP available? |
Hi. I'm running squeeze. I installed from the netinstall cd (graphical install). I need to get pulseaudio, so here is my question: Is there any additional configuration you need to do after installing the "pulseaudio" package (to integrate with alsa, gnome integration, multimedia keys etc.)? Any guidance would be great... | I never needed anything else than basic /etc/asound.conf (for global configuration) or .asoundrc (for user configuration) Code: Select allpcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } This code will route alsa output through pulseaudio server. If you have 5.1 ... |
Hi there A recent update to Iceweasel 5 (version 5.0-6 ) on my debian (Linux xxxxx 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux) led to a rather odd an annoying behavior. Each time I try to open an external file (pdf, odt) or to save a file on the hard drive, then Iceweasel crashes systematically.... | And trying to get into Preferences |
Hello! I have a little problem here, I don't know what processor architecture Debian should I download. cat /proc/cpuinfo gives me: Code: Select allprocessor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 3000.102 cache size : 6144 KB phys... | http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i- ... r-not.html |
I bought the ION Tape Express to convert all my cassette tapes to mp3 on my computer. The software that came on the CD works fine in Virtualbox windows XP. I could be happy with this but would rather use Linux. The problem is Debian Squeeze sees the new USB device but I can't find a program that will record from it. I'... | I found this page so the sound should work. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... nd#p338080 And looking at the alsa site it looks like the right driver is loaded. I'm at a total lose how to get this thing to record. I've tried System/Preferences/Sound but playing with different settings does no good. |
Hi, my problem is about a pc I use as home server (i.e. backup and other things). This system has three disk, one for the os and two used for a raid 1 zone (mirrored drives). The system work properly but sometimes I have problems because the HDD changes /dev identifier. In the fstab file the partition are mounted by ui... | Some information about new tests I have run: I tried to specify uniquely the devices in the configuration file, so I identified the device by their ID but nothing has changed. Here's the new mdadm.conf Code: Select allMAILADDR root DEVICE /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EARS-00Y5B1_WD-WCAV5K248225-part1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata... |
Hi, I installed squeeze 2 or 3 weeks ago. When I run aptitude update in the terminal, it looks for me to load a cd. What's that about? see below debian@dell:~$ su Password: root@dell:/home/debian# aptitude update Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 kde-CD Binary-1 20110110-07:46] s... | As root, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the cd line. |
I had this configuration before, and it used to work well, but now I got a new server and I can't setup it to share the internet connection from ppp0. I'm on Debian testing. The client connects directly on eth0 through a dhcp server, and it can get an IP just fine. The problem seems only to appear when I set this rule:... | As I said, this configuration "was working before". The new server I'm working has the following ethernet card: Code: Select all13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) After testing things again and again experiencing this odd network behavior, I didn't realize that my ker... |
I have a number of ad-blocking phrases in /etc/hosts, such as this: 127.0.0.1 a.visualrevenue.com 127.0.0.1 e.yieldmanager.net 127.0.0.1 csc.beap.ad.yieldmanager.net 127.0.0.1 ads.yldmgrimg.net 127.0.0.1 adlog.com.com 127.0.0.1 dailydeal.seattlepi.com These work in Konqi but not in Iceweasel, for example I can browse t... | works just fine here. I have used the hosts file from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt for ages. No issues using it in any browser. |
On my Sid AMD64 box, starting this morning I can not use sudo apt-get to update, dist-upgrade.etc. I get the error at the end of the process. Code: Select all $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following pa... | Looks like it's related to sudo. Normally if I execute reboot or halt using sudo, it would execute properly, but now Code: Select allramack@debian64:~$ sudo reboot sudo: reboot: command not found ramack@debian64:~$ sudo halt sudo: halt: command not found |
I want to execute a script whenever a network interface is brought up. At night I suspend my laptop, and my reverse SSH tunnels get destroyed, so I want them to be automatically reestablished when I wake the machine. Like a smart-ass I thought I could put the script in /etc/network/if-up.d, but that just doesn't work. ... | Does the script run if you ifdown and then ifup the interface? |
I have just installed Debian Squeeze on my spare computer (dual booted with Ubuntu 11.04) and I cannot connect to the internet using Squeeze. Due to my ISP, I have to manually connect this computer and on Ubuntu copying and pasting a text file such as this into the terminal works with no problems:- Code: Select allsudo... | http://wiki.debian.org/Network#Network_configuration http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia ... 05.en.html |
Hello, I'm using Debian testing and today i an upgrade to kernel 3.0.1 was available and after i upgrade my wireless doesn't work. while it was installing I got this notification Code: Select allThis system is currently running Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 and you are installing Linux 3.0.0-1-rt-amd64. In the new version some ... | If you have an internet connection run in terminal Code: Select all# apt-get install iwlwifi-105-5.ucode iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode iwlwifi-2000-5.ucode Otherwise you must download the files on a usb stick and run in terminal Code: Select all# dpkg -i iwlwifi-105-5.ucode iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode iwlwifi-2000-5.ucode |
I'm using an up-to-date installation of Squeeze with the default Gnome desktop and am trying to print. My knowledge of configuring printers is very limited if it even exists. Since a friend of mine is able to print from her Ubuntu computer, my plan is to copy her. Here's how she does it. She goes under System->Administ... | After having installed python-smbc it is working. |
My university has a secure wireless network that has the following specs: WPA2, 1st Authentication TTLS, 2nd Authentication PAP, Encryption CCMP or AES, Thawte_Premium_Server_CA certificate and username and password. I have never gotten this to work with wicd. First of all, wicd does not have a default template for thi... | It appears wicd is rather finicky about white spaces when specifying the required and optional fields.... I had sometimes 2 spaces in between each field. By correcting this, it worked! EDIT: well, it worked as in it appeared on the menu, but it refuses to connect to the network. Network Manager has no problem connectin... |
I have recently installed Debian on my laptop. Most things have worked fine with little configuration - including my sound card. The problem is, I sometimes use a USB headset. On plugging it in, ALSA is perfectly willing to acknowledge its presence, but I can't find any simple way of playing sound through it. After a l... | Hey! You should give the pulseaudio-server a try. With the tool pavucontrol you are able to switch the output to different hardware in a very easy way. Sometimes it is a little bit complicated to set it up. The ArchWiki has a good howto to that: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio Some libraries like GStream... |
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